I’ve got one of those crazy-wide screens that I usually use at 5120x1440 and it’s great. However, since I work remote, I often want to share my screen with someone on a typical 16:9 screen and the options of “tab”, “window” or “entire screen” aren’t particularly useful because I need to switch between windows a lot as part of the sharing session: terminal, IDE, browser, back to the terminal, etc.

I’d like to be able share either (a) a portion of the screen (half?) or (b) change my resolution temporarily to something like 2650x1440 and just share the whole screen.

The problem is that as far as I can tell, (a) isn’t an option, and while I can (b) change my resolution to something 16:9, it renders wide across the screen turning effectively every pixel is a wide rectangle. It’s… hard to look at.

I’m using Arch with GNOME+Wayland. Is there some way for me to do either of the above?

EDIT: I found a nifty little Python script that does exactly what I was hoping for in (b) above. Apparently this is a built-in feature for Wayland, but most browsers don’t implement it (yet?)

  • SilverCode@lemmy.ml
    6·
    6 days ago

    I know this doesn’t solve your immediate problem when using GNOME, but if you are desktop curious, KDE natively offers sharing a portion of the screen or even creating a whole new virtual monitor with its own resolution, wallpaper etc that you can share.

    So my typical workflow is to have it create a 1080p virtual monitor above my real monitors, and share that, since sharing a full 4k monitor makes it hard for people to read. Then I can show whatever I want on that monitor without worrying about exposing something from my main monitors.

  • TurboWafflz@lemmy.world
    10·
    6 days ago

    Use OBS to capture your screen and manipulate it however you want and then use its virtual camera feature as your webcam for the meeting. If you want both your face and screen you could easily do a facecam in the corner in obs

  • parker@programming.dev
    7·
    6 days ago

    I think I’d recommend OBS too, but I guess this is possible with an application I wrote.

    If you want to install it, it is available on Flathub here.

    edit: My webp video stopped loading for me, so uploaded a mirror to YouTube here

    • eldebryn@lemmy.world
      3·
      5 days ago

      Not OP but this actually looks really nice! Good job mate, I will probably DL later to try it out.

      • parker@programming.dev
        1·
        5 days ago

        Thanks. It’s really intended to solve picture in picture for any application, but it looks like it does exactly was OP was requesting too.

  • siph@feddit.org
    3·
    6 days ago

    Maybe this can help. Basically you’re looking to split your screen into virtual screens.

    Don’t know if this will work on the fly though.